Opportunity made ‘interplanetary hole-in-one’
Enthusiastic scientists told reporters that the rover, which touched down in a small crater on the red planet, was in “excellent condition” and that its landing site was unique. Read the Full Story
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Rover landings: Cornell goes to Mars
PASADENA, Calif. — Just three days before the rover Spirit is set to roll off its lander onto the Martian surface in the early hours of Thursday morning, NASA released a 360-degree panorama of the landing site in the Gusev crater.Read the Full Story
Moon Base: NASA’s Recurring Dream
They might look through their old filing cabinets to start, because the U.S. government and its contractors have been planning lunar colonies since long before Neil Armstrong took his one giant leap for mankind in 1969. Read the Full Story
Bush: Back to the moon by 2015
Bush also confirmed that a series of robotic missions, similar to the current Mars Exploration Rover program, would explore the lunar surface by 2008. Read the Full Story
Teachers captivate students with Mars mission
Teams of teens huddled over computers, downloading the latest images from the red planet, while other students assembled and programmed a model of one of the Mars rovers using Lego blocks and other materials.Read the Full Story
Mars Exploration Rover Mission
NASA’s Spirit Rover is starting to examine its new surroundings.Read the Full Story
Mars landers create opportunity for Web-linked sundials around the world
Sullivan, a University of Washington astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, “the science guy,” and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams.Read the Full Story
NASA ramps up educator-astronaut program, despite public concerns
NASA recently received more than 1,600 applications from educators who wanted to fill a handful of educator-astronaut positions. The agency said it plans to hire three to six teachers who will join NASA’s Astronaut Corps on a permanent basis.Read the Full Article
Goals For the Next Century: To The Moon, Mars and Beyond
While fascination with space is as old as the first starry night, humanity’s first half-steps into outer space occurred only 46 years ago this October when a Soviet rocket punched through the clouds and put the first artificial satellite in orbit. Read the Full Article
Memo to ‘the ladies’: Technology is cool
Fanfare accompanied the liftoff from Cape Canaveral as Sally Ride and four other astronauts aboard the Challenger hurtled into space. Among the celebrities cheering for Dr. Ride were two leaders of the women’s movement, Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda. Other onlookers sported T-shirts bearing the upbeat message, “Ride, Sally Ride.”Read the Full Article
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